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Everyone returns us to a different sense of ourselves, for we become a little of who they think we are.

Alain de Botton

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Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.
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Unhappiness can stem from having only one perspective to play with.
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Have Perspective Play Stem Unhappiness
We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.
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People only get really interesting when they start to rattle the bars of their cages.
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Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
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A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.
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Work is most fulfilling when you’re at the comfortable, exciting edge of not quite knowing what you are doing.
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In the oasis complex, the thirsty man images he sees water, palm trees, and shade not because he has evidence for the belief, but because he has a need for it. Desperate needs bring about a hallucination of their solution: thirst hallucinates water.
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The good parent: someone who doesn’t mind, for a time, being hated by their children.
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These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
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Activity Elevate Entrepreneur Force Formulation Ide Intent Inventor Vision World
Although I don’t believe in God, Bach’s music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
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Believe Feel God Love Music Must Show
Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.
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The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
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Dependent Derive Destination Journey Mindset More Pleasure
Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn’t know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
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True love is a lack of desire to check one’s smartphone in another’s presence.
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Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.
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